ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. "FLOWER OF THE NORTH.” Perhaps the most popular of James Oliver -Curwood’s stories is “Flower of the North.” This great story of the land north of 53 has been brought to the screen with Henry B. Walthall and Pauline Starke in the leading roles. The story itself is entirely modern, ■with a touch of the past in the customs still observed at the Fort o’ God, which seem to take that particular spot out of the present day and carry it back to another generation. The dramatic intensity of the production is well handled; thrilling and stirring incidents are offset ‘by a lighter vein in the development of a deep love story. There are Indian camps, rapids, and big light’s offset by refreshing stillness of Nature as the hero looks off the mountain cliff into the valley beneath, stretching in pensive quietness for miles. Then, too, there is the of nature life in the squirrel, in the rabbit and the babies, the dogs and other animals of the north whidh have been filmed at close range. “Flower of the North’- screens at Everybody’s to-night and to-morrow, at the usual prices. MARY PICKFORD IN “THROUGH THE BACK DOOR.” The box plans for the big Mary Pickford production “Through the Back Door,” open at Collier’s this morning. The story is a combination of comedy and drama, with many of those latigh* able pranks for which Miss Pickford is famous when portraying a pig-tailed kiddie. Mother love and the heart-hun-ger of a child all bound up in an intricate society drama, supply the emotional impulses of the play. The story is one of tremendous heart interest, dealing with the pathetic efforts of a little French girl to reach her mother, from whom she has been separated since babyhood. The climax of the story comes in one of America’s castles of the rich, situated on Long Island. The plot is one of numerous complications, featuring those serio-comic situations where laughter mingles with the tears. The t-creening nights are Wednesday and •Thursday, at Everybody’s. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “THE U.P. TRAIL.” The picture session of Zane Grey’s widely read novel, “The U.P. Trail,” was screened to a capacity 'house at the People’s on Saturday night. The story deals with the pioneer days of adventure along the Union Pacific railroad. A powerful cast interprets the plot, including the names of such famous players as Joseph J. Dowling, Kathlyn Williams, Robert McKinn, Marguerite Do La Motte and Roy Stewart. The story shows “Beauty Stanton,” played by Miss Kathlyn Williams, a woman of evident refinement and good ancestry, who comes to the town of Benton, “a roaring hell of lust and greed and gold and death,’’ on the U.P. Railroad, and establishes herself as owner and proprietress of the greatest dancing hall and gambling saloon in the country. Here one sees the end, as well as the beginning, of “Beauty Stanton’s” colorful adventure, when she gives her heart and soul, and. then her life, for the love of ft man who loved another girl. The final screening is announced for to-night. Episode 5 of “The Blue Fox” is also include with this .programme